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MEASURING 5.9 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, THE EARTHquake that shook Cairo last Monday was only a medium-size tremor by world standards. But Cairo's densely overcrowded neighborhoods, the rickety state of much of the city's older housing and the shoddy construction of some of the city's newer buildings combined to turn it into an unprecedented national disaster. The 40-second tremor, felt as far away as Jerusalem, sent Cairo residents scrambling into the streets. As casualty reports flowed in from the capital and outlying provinces, Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak hastily interrupted a trip to China. Egyptian...
Arab states ranging from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to Libya quickly pledged up to $180 million in aid, and Japan promised to donate $600,000. Although most of Cairo's more modern buildings came through the quake relatively unharmed, there were scenes of terrible devastation, particularly in the older neighborhoods. But Egypt's ancient monuments, including the Sphinx and the Pyramids, survived unscathed...
...surpassed. Like the Sumerians to the east, the Egyptians developed a writing system, though their hieroglyphs were pictorial rather than sound-based. They also invented rudimentary arithmetic and accounting systems. "It was a simple culture compared to what came later," says Kent Weeks, an Egyptologist at American University in Cairo. "But the quality of the work and variety of raw materials show it was in fact a fairly complex and sophisticated society...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...
London: William Mader Paris: Frederick Ungeheuer, Margot Hornblower Brussels: Adam Zagorin Bonn: James O. Jackson Berlin: Daniel Benjamin Central Europe: James L. Graff Moscow: John Kohan, James Carney, Ann M. Simmons Rome: John Moody Istanbul: James Wilde Jerusalem: Lisa Beyer Cairo: Dean Fischer, William Dowell Nairobi: Marguerite Michaels, Andrew Purvis Johannesburg: Scott MacLeod New Delhi: Jefferson Penberthy Beijing: Jaime A. FlorCruz Southeast Asia: Richard Hornik Hong Kong: Jay Branegan Tokyo: Edward W. Desmond, Kumiko Makihara Latin America: Laura Lopez...